Tanner's Polished Turd

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Tanner's Polished Turd

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I've been slacking on starting this build thread, partly due to the fact that I seem to not remember to take pictures until it is too late, and everyone knows they check out build threads for the pictures! With that being said Here is my Bronco, slow and steady build with moderate plans for upgrades as my budget allows.

I am going to do a few catching up posts then from there on I'll try to regularly update.

These first two pictures are of when I first got the bronco drivable.
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Quickly ditched the running boards and rear wing.
At this point I was just driving it to and from work/school to work out some of the bugs. (It had previously sat for about 8 years)
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Scored a set of 33/10.5/15 Toyo M/Ts for $480 with about 85-90% tread life. This is how I have been driving it for 8 months now.
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Bought a set of National 3" 10-pack leaf springs at the end of December.
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Here are the cores I picked up and started to degrease and hit with a wire wheel, but decided to send them to the sand blaster.
Sent them off to Threat Motorsports and after a quick turn around I drove out to California to pick them up this past weekend. :D
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Subbed
https://donttellmywiferacing.bigcartel.com/ (We have shirts, stickers, saginaw pumps, and other Bronco/OBS goodies)
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Looks good man. Are you in Payson?
'96 XLT 5.8l lil edelbrock, lil Autofab, LOTTA fun.

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RyanDS650X wrote:Looks good man. Are you in Payson?
I live in the west valley, But that last picture I posted was up near woods canyon.
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Front shocks came in, rears should be here by the end of the week. I am also looking for extended brake lines. Any suggestions?
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tanneraz21 wrote: I am also looking for extended brake lines. Any suggestions?
Got mine from summit for like $60 all 4. Can't remember brand but they're steel braided and nice.
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These look like they would be good. I have had good results with other Russell products.
Although it is not a big deal, some brake lines are not street legal.
These are advertised as street Legal.

https://m.summitracing.com/parts/rus-696490



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Actually those are the ones I ended up buying, worked great.
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Wrightracing.net wrote:These look like they would be good. I have had good results with other Russell products.
Although it is not a big deal, some brake lines are not street legal.
These are advertised as street Legal.

https://m.summitracing.com/parts/rus-696490



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Will they work? application chart says they're for super duty's and excursions?
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Tanner's Polished Turd

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Here is the part numbers for Russell's

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All new Brake lines, ball joints, alignment cams and pivot bushings
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All new moog stock steering
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